Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:53:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: No go after update to 1.7.1
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just updated my old cygwin installation to the new version 1.7.1.
>I'm running it on a German WinXP SP3. The installation process went
>without any problem or error message, but now if I try to start cygwin
>using the desktop icon a command window appears for a short time and
>then goes away again. Even if I try to start the cygwin.bat from a cmd
>window I just end up in C:\cygwin\bin, but no bash is started at all.
>
>Then I followed the instructions from
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all to
>uninstall cygwin, rebooted and installed 1.7.1 again. But again,
>cygwin does not work.
>
>Any ideas?

That may be the symptom of two different versions of the DLL existing on
your system.

See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more information on how to track
down Cygwin problems.

cgf

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